Elegance Quotes - Page 9

• Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

  Oleg Cassini

  Looks, Wonderful

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• Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

  Mason Cooley

  Sleazes, Refutation, Vulgarity

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• Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you love to read. The Anatomy Lesson is just such a novel. In stunning prose, Nina Siegal animates Rembrandt's first masterpiece, spinning a deeply affecting tale of love, loss and redemption as she reveals the secrets of the human soul. It is a gorgeous literary page turner of immense sympathy and elegance, equal in artistic lan to its inspiration. Brava!

  Robin Oliveira

  Inspiration, Loss, Soul

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• I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

  Alice Temperley

  Fashion, Thinking, Ifs

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Humility, Years

  "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010.

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• Because this age and the next age
  Engender in the ditch,
  No man can know a happy man
  From any passing wretch,
  If Folly link with Elegance
  No man knows which is which.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Men, Age

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

  Kwame Dawes

  Stars, Prayer, Writing

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Glitter, Littles

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• Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Buttons, Dresses

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Diversity, Imagination, Preparation

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• Elegance is exquisite polish.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Polish, Exquisite

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• I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Men, Style, Want

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• Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Art, Lying

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.

  Paul Davies

  Beautiful, Humility, Science

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• In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Real, World, Pay

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129, 1999.

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• Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

  Edmund Burke

  Style, Language, Purity

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Constitution, Effects

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• Go, mark the matchless working of the power
  That shuts within the seed the future flower;
  Bids these in elegance of form excel.
  In color these, and those delight the smell;
  Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies,
  To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Flower, Eye

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• You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Art, Albums, Records

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, www.outclique.org. December 16, 2016.

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• A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

  Erik Naggum

  Appreciation, Exercise, Rights

  Re: Emacs inferior to XEmacs? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 8, 1996.

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• I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart.

  Idara Victor

  Home, Heart, Profound

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• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  Alfred Molina

  Italian, Actors, Inspired

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I bring - my team and I, because it's not only me - is this sense of elegance and casualness, and no pretension. There's also a sense of loyalty - loyalty to my customers, but also loyalty from my staff. Also, I think a sense of perfection; I'm a bit of an obsessed freak with perfection. I think I bring craziness sometimes, because if there is someone who's going to dare do something crazy, it's me.

  Daniel Boulud

  Loyalty, Crazy, Team

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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